Hello again, how are you doing? Yet another gig and this time at the Queen's, our spiritual home or the place we played first or the drummers local whichever fits best.
Good venue this. Its not really a venue but the audience are really appreciative and the odd celebrity (odd as in every now again - Sorry mate!) turns up to support Green Head Man, and that's a lovely gesture.
We are not allowed to setup until around 20:00 on a bad day due to the venues other function as a restaurant and this makes getting on stage at 21:00 difficult for us (especially as we have to provide the PA etc..) and so with the best will in the world we are usually a little late. This time we were very late - 21:40 - so we made a very special effort on a very hot and sticky Friday night to be extra trippy and extra committed to giving the assembled drinkers (and musicians too??) a good quality piece of entertainment.
That we did. A very hot experience all round.
The venue and the audience really enjoyed it and that's the best we can hope for. The band were in full jam mode - the drummer is packed away in an alcove so sometimes cues are missed and another 16bar improvised musical passage is called for but we get there in the end and visit many a magical place en route.
We did only one extended set here as we were late getting on stage and it was interesting to see people flow in and out to the bar and for a fag and basically a breather too. In retrospect 2 sets is the way to approach these smaller gigs I think - gives people time to take 5 and buy a beer and all that - lesson learned there.
The usual crew came, fans, musos, WAG's and we all had a very nice time indeed thank you very much. It was so hot and I was giving it "the beans (tm)" so much that at one point I seriously considered that I may collapse but I carried on with pints of council pop and remained vertical in the end.
We sold more CD's too and advertised our new clothing range (A shirt).
Next weekend off and then over to Bromsgrove to the good old (loud) Hop Pole Inn. Venue PA as well so the get in is easy. Ron is playing 3 gigs that day so we are setting up one of his kits for him - don't think he knows what hes letting himself in for!!
See you later lovely people,
Nick
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